Students and faculty now have access to Westlaw UK, which is a full-text searchable database for UK case law and legislation. To log on to this database, use your regular Westlaw username and password on uk.westlaw.com. You can easily retrieve…
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Resource Spotlight: Oxford Public International Law Resources
Next time you are working on a project that involves international legal research, consider using our Oxford Public International Law online resources. Our library now subscribes to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International…
Resource Spotlight: Thomson Reuters ProView
Have you ever encountered a message on Westlaw Edge indicating that you do not have access to the full text of a particular treatise because it is outside of our subscription? Before you resign yourself to looking for a different…
Resource Spotlight: PLI Plus
The library recently subscribed to PLI Plus, which provides access to treatises and answer books, forms, course handbooks, and transcripts from PLI’s seminars. PLI Plus is an excellent resource for transactional law research, but also contains useful materials for those…
Resource Spotlight: Perma.cc
Ever heard of link rot? Or reference rot? If you’ve used the internet, you’re guaranteed to have encountered it whether or not you’ve heard of it by name. Link rot happens when a URL no longer works, instead displaying the…
Resource Spotlight: Course Reserves
The Reserves section is located behind the PLRC circulation desk. It contains items of varying type and origin: monographs from the PLRC, monographs from the main library and other campus libraries, periodicals, reporters, statutes, personal copies of books supplied by…
Researching Legal Employers
To help you prepare for OCI this week, the library has created a Guide to Researching Legal Employers. It contains quick links to directories and news sources to help you look up law firm profiles and attorney biographies. Good luck!
New SSRN RSS feed
RSS feeds are now available for Northwestern University School of Law’s SSRN Research Papers: Law & Economics Series Public Law & Legal Theory Series Clicking on the links above will bring you to the RSS feed for each Series. Subscribing…
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